Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar review – twisted sounds for a twisted world

Warp-speed rapping, electronic drones, and lyrics about foie gras manufacture: nothing is too esoteric for the impressive Mercury prize winnersLate last year, Young Fathers announced the arrival of their third album with the release of a track called Lord. It was the stuff of which mainstream leaps are made: a beautiful, careworn piano ballad with quasi-religious lyrics (“Lord don’t pay me no mind … this is my cross to bear”) that swelled into a huge, gospel-influenced c...

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